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- p. 33, Charles County Land Records, Volume III
1692; A register of Births, Marriages & Burials for Charles County together with a connivance of what Births, Marriages & Burials have been formerly entered and registered in this county
Liber Q, Pages 1 to 26
Hoskins Jane d/o Philip & Elizabeth Hoskins of Portobacco b 1 Mar 1681
Jane was named after her grandmother, Jane (Lee) Wahob.
NJL note: I am of the opinion that Thomas Stone married Jane Hoskins. I have several pieces of circumstantial evidence to support my opinion:
1) Jane Hoskins was the only daughter of Philip Hoskins who was old enough. Both Jane and Benedicta were named in the will of their grandfather, Alexander Wahob, written 1 Dec 1683. This would have been an older Benedicta, as the land records give her birth as 16 Dec 1685.
2) Her daughter, Mary Stone named a daughter Jenny Stone Hanson.
3) Her daughter, Ann Stone named a daughter Jane Fowke.
4) Martha Hoskins acknowledged receiving her share of her 2 brothers', mother's and father's estates in a deed signed Jul 8, 1729, and signed as Martha Hoskins, meaning she would have post-deceased Thomas Stone. Thomas' wife at his death and per his will was Catherine Boughton.
Norma Fiske Lundgren
"Mudd Family of the U.S.", Vol II, p. 1477:
Oswald Hoskins, b. c. 1699, unm. d. Chas Co, MD. before 28 Oct 1721. Will dated 14 Jan 1720, Chas Co. probated 6 Sep 1731; personal estate to be divided equally among brothers Bennett and Baylord and sisters Mary Ann and Martha; brother Bennett executor of this as well as their mother's Will; overseers brother-in-law Thomas Stone and William Chandler; witnesses: Ignatius Doyce (Doyne?), William Matthews Thompson and Thomas Jameson.
Martha Hoskins, b. c. 1707, m. Thomas Stone of Chas Co., MD before 26 May 1729.
It is believed that Philip Hoskins was some close relation to Sir Bennett Hoskins, Bart (Baronet) (1609-1679) of Morehampton and Harewood, Herefordshire, England. Philip Hoskins was first mentioned 2 Sept 1671, when Bennett Hoskins of England gave him a power of attorney to secure Bennett's patent for the 2000 acre "Manor of Friendship". At that date he is referred to as of or near Wicomico River (present St Mary's or Chas. Co.). The second reference is when by deed dated 7 Sept 1671 he, a planter of Chas. Co. and James Hayes, a planter, purchased the 200 acre Owen's Purchase in Port Tobacco Hundred from John Owen.
Philip Hoskins was a Chas. Co. militia officer in Major Wheeler's Militia 1689-1703 and was referred to as a Colonel in 1707; Chas Co member of the Maryland House of Assembly in 1692, vestryman of Port Tobacco Church, Justice of the Provincial Court, trustee of Cool Springs, and Emissary to the Indians. He directed in his Will that he be buried in Port Tobacco Church. On 12-10-1717 he was appointed residual legatee by the will of Osmond Waple, Gent. of Chas. Co., for the use of Philip's children by wife Ann. By her father's will dated 1683, Eliza Wahob, 1st wife of Philip Hoskins, inherited a 200 acre plantation in Nanjemy Hundred, Chas. Co., MD., and bequests were made to her daughters Benedicta and Jane Hoskins. (Most of this was prepared by: George Ely Russell, Bowie, MD, May 1963. See National Genealogical Society Quarterly, March 1963, pg. 26-31, and Hoskins Families of Seventeenth Century America, by Geroge Ely Russell - Private Pub.)
There are three references listed re: Martha Hoskins married to Thomas Stone,:
- Chas. Co. Wills, AB#3, 125
- Ibid. 127
- Ibid. 154
Norma Fiske Lundgren wrote: I am of the opinion that Thomas Stone married Jane Hoskins, the oldest child of Philip Hoskins and Elizabeth Waughop. I have three pieces of circumstantial evidence for it.
1) She is the only one of Philip Hoskins' daughters (of which I am aware) that was old enough. The land records have her born 1 Mar 1681/82. She was mentioned in the will of her grandfather, Alexander Wahob, written 1st Dec, 1683. She and her sister are the only two Hoskins grand-children mentioned, which supports the data with her as the oldest.
2) William Hanson and Mary Stone, the daughter of Thomas Stone, named a daughter "Jenny Hoskins Hanson". William Hanson was the son of Robert Hanson and Benedicta Hoskins, the sister of Jane. Benedicta was mentioned in her grandfather's will, too, but that was probably an older sister who did not survive, as the land records give Benedicta's birth as 16 Dec 1685.
3) Roger Fowke and Anne Stone, the daughter of Thomas Stone, named a daughter "Jane Fowke". Roger Fowke was the son of Gerard Fowke, and Sarah Burdett.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=nlndgrn&id=I11739 Norma nlndgrn@sbcglobal.net)
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